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How much. Our magazine continues to follow the course of the parliamentary-presidential campaign. Key players regularly update the news feed, however, without indulging the audience with explanations and important details. Hidden under the imperious carpet was looking for The New Times
Seance for Putin The Angry Artists, as they call themselves, distributed postcards and street posters with comic strips dedicated to Vladimir Putin and Fyodor Dostoevsky in St. Petersburg. Exactly in this bundle - no more, no less. The author of these creations, Daniil Tikhonov, explained in his blog that Putin and Dostoevsky are united by “angry”: “The word “angry” comes from the word “heart”. Fyodor Mikhailovich is a real angry artist, just as much as Putin is an angry politician. And Andrei Tatarinov, a member of the political council of the Young Guard of United Russia, also gave a political rationale for the new tandem: “Putin and Dostoevsky are two images of Russia known to the whole world. One makes decisions, the other influences minds. Too bad they were never seen together." Really sorry. It is worth recalling that the dead classics were involved in the United Russia PR campaign before. In May, the northern capital was pleased with its unity with the party in power, in which, without a number of people from the KGB, they were pleased: Anna Akhmatova (her husband was shot by the Chekists, the son was imprisoned by the efforts of the NKVD), Joseph Brodsky (sitting for parasitism), Dmitry Likhachev (sitting), Dmitry Shostakovich (was ostracized), etc. - 25 great and now long silent appeared on the posters next to the logo of the ruling party.
Vladislav Surkov and his “family” FACT: Oleg Govorun, who until September 6 held the post of head of the internal policy department of the presidential administration, was appointed presidential envoy in the Central District. Govorun's place was taken by his deputy Konstantin Kostin. Also, by decree of President Medvedev, Nikolai Vinnichenko, Medvedev's classmate and former plenipotentiary representative in the Urals Federal District, was appointed plenipotentiary representative in the North-Western Federal District - instead of the dismissed Ilya Klebanov. Vinnichenko's old position was given to the former mayor of Tyumen, Yevgeny Kuyvashev. Thus, Medvedev replaced the last presidential envoys appointed by Vladimir Putin.
WHAT IT MEANS: The translation of Oleg Govorun at the very beginning of the parliamentary-presidential campaign caused a great resonance. Govorun worked in the presidential administration (AP) since 2000 and was known as the right hand of Vladislav Surkov, the first deputy head of the AP. In 2008, a non-partisan Govorun was introduced to the Supreme Council of United Russia in order to increase Surkov's influence on the party.
* * See The New Times No. 47, November 24, 2008. In his post at the Presidential Administration, he also dealt with the money of parties - he oversaw operational communications with banks participating in the shadow system of financing the 2007 parliamentary campaign, the so-called black cash desk of the Kremlin
* After the publication of this investigation - see The New Times No. 44 of December 10, 2007 - the magazine's correspondent Natalia Morar was denied entry to Russia. . “This is the first serious appointment of his protege, which Surkov managed to organize. Govorun, one might say, is a member of Surkov’s “family” in the executive branch,” said Mikhail Tulsky, president of the Political Analytics research center. “The money of the presidential administration and the department for domestic policy remained under Surkov, and this appointment now allows the executive branch to manage budgets creatively.”
Right-wing glamor Alla Pugacheva agreed to join the ranks of the Right Cause - in the party, the prima donna, according to its leader Mikhail Prokhorov, will deal with issues of a difficult female lot.
“The party is in dire need of charismatic individuals. But Pugacheva is not an electoral figure, - says Alexander Kynev, an analyst from the Golos association. - The mass voter was ill with stars back in the early 90s. Yes, humorist Mikhail Evdokimov won the gubernatorial elections in the Altai Territory in 2004. But he was his own, from Altai. In addition, he was anti-glamour. Glamor is not electoral.”
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Cadres decide everything First Vice Mayor Vladimir Resin, “the chief architect of Moscow”, curator of the construction complex with a budget of $30 billion and a total cost of projects of about $120 billion, for the first time in many years will not be responsible for elections in Moscow. On September 6, Sergei Sobyanin signed a decree with a telling title: "On measures to assist election commissions in exercising their powers in preparing and holding elections of State Duma deputies and the president." “Providing assistance” will be a special working group, headed by Sobyanin’s longtime comrade-in-arms, since the Tyumen times, and now his deputy, the head of the apparatus of the capital’s government and at the same time the representative of the mayor in the Moscow City Duma, Anastasia Rakova.
“The appointment of Rakova was a matter of time and only confirms that Sobyanin now takes full political responsibility for the results of the elections in Moscow,” said Mikhail Vinogradov, president of the Petersburg Politics Foundation. However, analyst Mikhail Tulsky believes that this is the mayor's mistake. His predecessor, Yuri Luzhkov, built a well-coordinated system of organization of elections in Moscow, in which the capital's prefects, heads of administrations and other heads of municipal government were involved. The expert believes that the appointment of a stranger to them and, moreover, a non-Moscow person as the curator of the campaign threatens with surprises: “Rakov at the head of the elective headquarters is, to put it mildly, ridiculous,” Tulsky is sure.
ONF: mission accomplished, forget it On September 7, it became known that the headquarters of the All-Russian Popular Front would no longer take part in the election campaign - all powers on this issue were finally transferred to the headquarters of United Russia.
“ONF gave the party new people, they will be included in the electoral lists of the United Russia, and the party will further promote these social activists,” Sergey Markov, a member of the general council of the party in power, told The New Times. However, analyst Mikhail Tulsky believes that this is the visible result of Vladislav Surkov's hardware victory over his main rival in the field of party building, Deputy Prime Minister Vyacheslav Volodin, the head of the White House staff. “Volodin used to be under Surkov, but now he began to behave too independently,” Tulsky believes. “The closure of the headquarters returned Volodin to his place — near Surkov.” A similar fate, adds Mikhail Tulsky, may await the head of Rosmolodezh, Vasily Yakemenko, who also tried to run ahead of the owner, the expert shares undercover intrigues. Wait and see. Ahead are four months of what is called “Kremlin politics”.